The architectural concept is compelling: Have sets of virtualized servers that exist in your data center, with the ability to move virtual machines dynamically between your data center and a public cloud provider -- in other words, a virtualized hybrid cloud. What's...
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Apr 14, 2011
SOURCE: Businesswire Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that NTT Communications, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and...
Apr 13, 2011
A radical shift is underway with respect to business application software -- its technical language and architecture, development methodology, deployment and business model. This trend -- the model first surfaced in the past decade and was widely recognized when...
Apr 13, 2011
What's interesting to me in all this is what I see as a Microsoft renaissance. After years of bumbling with a patchwork of applications, including a homegrown CRM package that took a long time to gel, Microsoft is beginning to line up its ducks with a consistent...
Apr 12, 2011
SOURCE: CLoudera Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, today announced the general availability of Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop v3 (CDH3), the latest major release of the company’s open source...
Apr 12, 2011
Amazon.com recently unveiled its Cloud Drive services that allow people to store digital music and access them from computers or Android devices. We believe that this will offer some upside to our estimates for Amazon’s stock through increased revenues from its cloud...
Apr 12, 2011
SOURCE:Â Forbes Those who create or leverage clouds, whether private or public, need to manage those clouds while they support core business processes. Cloud management is a set of approaches and technologies that are evolving as the world of cloud computing becomes...
Apr 11, 2011
If you have been waiting, like I have, for IBM to get Power-based infrastructure clouds to market, it looks like you are going to have to wait a little while longer but no later than the end of this year. The Global Technology Services division of Big Blue's Global...
Apr 8, 2011
Perhaps the biggest reason I -- and many others in my firm who follow open source software and enterprise IT -- am so bullish on cloud computing is the user empowerment and enablement that has occurred. Open source software began teaching us about the importance and...
Apr 7, 2011
The transition to the cloud is a significant strategic undertaking. While buying and setting up a few virtual servers in a public cloud can be done in minutes with a credit card, designing and implementing an integrated strategy that provides the desired benefits...
